Show here and there around the state mine manager john mcclellan of the three kings at park city received word recently to suspend operations on that property this move is supposed to be because of the activities of general manager forest mathez in california 1111 mining ining properties in which he is directing operations and where he now spends the greater part of his time withholdings its approval of the action of a subcommittee the chamber of commerce smokeless city committee on the referred the proposal that a smokeless fuel plant be erected in salt lake city to the chambers board of governors the committee recommended that the governors appoint a committee of five to review the findings of the smokeless city subcommittee in order that shipments of ore now moving from the ithe old mill dump of the eureka hill to the plant of the american smelling smelting Sm elting 6 refining company may be increased preparations are now being made forthe for ithe installation of electric loading equipment to replace the present air hoist which is not rapid enough in its action or heavy enough to move the required amount of dirt says the eureka reporter A 0 jacobson manager of the mineral veins coalition properties at alta states that work is progressing satisfactorily at two points in the wasatch tunnel he reports that the tunnel has been extended a distance of feet from the portal where considerable water has been encountered this he things is draining the contact another lateral is being run to the north in columbus rexall property stockholders of the alta tunnel and transportation company have elected the following directors frank B cook M M johnson D H dairell Da izell james prinsen and F V bodfish officers of the company are mr bodfish president and manager mr cook vice president and treasurer david H bullough secretary and mr johnson managing director building of the new mill is progressing favorably it is said A sharp advance in the price of the stock of the utah metal eta and tunnel company followed recent reports of important ore developments in the comp company anys s bingham property the mine is being operated under the direction of international ter national smelting Sm elting companas comp anys officials and engineers the ore it is reported has shown big increases in values some running as high as ounces silver and on a level below running 60 a ton the maine is owned by boston interests shipment of the first car of coal from carbon countes coun tys newest mine the gordon creek was made thursday november 10 accor according diniz to announcement made by arthur robison superintendent superintend ten dent work on the tipple of the national coal company at national is proceeding rapidly according to elmer Wahl stron of salt lake who has the contract for construction concrete work is practically completed ancha and it will be a matter of but a short time until actual erection will have begun 0 the gisborn mines company filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk last friday H C wright is president J C morris vice president J W ensign secretary L A copeland and E H knott these officials completing the board of directors articles of incorporation po ration were also filed by the gilsonite products company officers and directors of this company are charles W wal ker president lawrence clayton vice president R M clayton secretary treasurer F W walker and J T young guy NY crane formerly of eureka and now a consult ing hig geologist with headquarters at salt lake was the prin c cipal speaker at a meeting of the utah section of the ameri amen can institute of mining and metallurgical engineers at the newhouse hotel on the he reviewed what he termed geophysical methods of ore finding with special reference to the chilson radio prospecting process used with some degree arree of success in arizona california washington and canada in his paper mr crane also discussed other scientific tife processes developed in various parts of the world in an effort to reduce the cost of searching out ore deposits encouraging reports are coming from the erickson property of frank Ser sisco and tony ferkovich on which paul hunt and associates of park city have a lease says the eureka reporter of the mr ferkovich was at the property this week and on his return stated that the main tunnel is now in a distance of feet the tunnel TO mi feet in length when the ground was turned over tolar to mr hunt who is responsible for the remainder of the work and the present face of the tunnel has a depth of 1000 to 1100 feet this tunnel has already cut some very promising fissures some of them containing stringers of good ore but mr hunts force has been busy on the one heading hy no effort being made to follow up the many encouraging leads five hundred feet of additional work should take the face of the tunnel almost beneath what is known as dutch peak which seems to be its objective |